Christian Vest Hansen <karmazi...@gmail.com> writes: >> Are you referring to using <, >, =, with objects that implement >> java.lang.Comparable? >> >> i.e. given x.compareTo(y) == -1 >> (< x y) >> => true >> >> I would find that useful. > > I think having <, >, <=, >= be based on Comparable has been discussed before. > > And the conclusion was that it was a bad idea, because in Java: > > user=> (.compareTo (Integer. "10") (Long. "10")) > java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Long cannot be cast to > java.lang.Integer (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0) > > And: > > user=> (.equals (Integer. "10") (Long. "10")) > false
Curses, Java! Foiled again. > Given these consequences, I think the current behavior is the best compromise. Agreed. Am curious as to what the idiomatic way to check to see if one string is alphabetically greater than another is though. -Phil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
